I want to learn how...any suggestions?

Take a singing lessons!!!
It `s really helps and you`ll find how to do it on oboe nice!!!

OMG so true. you should also listen to some records o songs that have oboe solos in it, listen to how they play and try and imitate them, it`ll come eventually, TIME IS JUST NEEDED.

Put on metronome.

Blow hard fast air on every quarter note. (ex - "Huh..Huh..Huh..Huh")

Do it on every eighth note.

Now every sixteenth note.

Now. Do it while playing a long tone on your oboe.

And there you go.

I would suggest just listening to recording it does develop overtime. When you think you`ve got vibrato down, it should come from the throat and not the stomach (diaphram). Many Oboist use the Diaphram vibrato but it a lot of work as compared to the throat/glisaddo.

I`ve just recently started to use vibrato and I still have to force myself. It comes to you eventually but until eventually you have to blow from your diaphram and make sure it isn`t you chewing on the reed with your lips. Don`t tounge the beats but blow in short little bursts of air almost.Good Luck!

Leo knows whats going on. Set it at 60bpm. Doing it as he suggested will give you a controlled vibrato. My oboe teacher and I have talked about it endlessly. Some good info you can read online:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~schuring/Oboe/vibrato.html

I play saxophone but I expect the techinique is the same...

There are three types of vibrato, but as far as my experience, the jaw vibrato is the best.

Simply, you move your bottom jaw saying "ya ya ya ya"

good luck!")

yeah .. DON`T YOU DARE!!!! That isn`t a very good idea because you`ll most likely just mess up the pitch in itself and the vibrato won`t make you sound any prettier

yea, jaw vibrato is unique to the sa i tihnk. it is a pretty easy an practical way to do it for sax though =) i tried it on the clarinet, it sounds funny (well, vibrato in general isn`t recommended for the clarinet anyways) and i wouldn`t bother to try it on my bassoon. for my bassoon i kinda just pretend to do it like how you would normal sing w/ vibrato

No, jaw vibrato is NOT unique to the sax family. Having never played any, much less held any, I don`t know of the technique for vibrato on double reed instruments.

However, I do know that jaw vibrato may be used on the saxes, the clarinets, and all the brass instruments I know of.

Oh, and Jay, if you`ve ever listened to a really good jazz clarinetist (dixieland in particular), then you`ll see that vibrato CAN be used on a clarinet and not sound bad.

For the high and mid brass instruments (trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, tenor trombone, etc.), I have also seen players use a vibrato technique in which they move the instrument back and forth on their mouths very fast with their hands. So, there are 2 practical ways to do vibrato on brass instruments.

On flutes, I believe the only way to do vibrato is to change the pressure of the air with the diaphragm.

I believe that covers all the wind instruments.

Thomas

Get an oboe teacher - fast!! Do not use jaw vibrato - you must use the diaphragm. It will help with your tone production and your dynamics too.

I don`t agree with the previous post recommending the use of diaphragm vibrato. Although a diaphragm vibrato can sound good, using your throat is more efficient and can be more easily varied in terms of intensity and speed. Furthermore, if you do learn a diaphragm vibrato it will be much harder to switch to a throat vibrato in the future (having just made this switch myself).
Get yourself a good teacher. This is one of those areas where a bad habit can take a long time to unlearn.

My teacher starts every lesson with a vibrato excercise:
4 quarter, 4 8th note pairs, 4 sets of triplets 8ths, 4 sets of 16th notes. We start on tuning A, then D above that, then G over that, then the high B. Sometimes we do other notes depeninding on the mood of the reed or the oboe, like if F, F#, or G are being naughty.

Sometimes we do low D (below the staff), high B (above the staff), middle G (in the staff) with 4 8th note pairs of vibrato per note. We also do the same intervals starting on middle C (A, F-fork), E (C#, A) and low Eb (C, Ab).

My teacher is adamant that throat or jaw vibrato be avoided as this will impeed a steady air stream and can give a very closed off sound. She doesn`t endorce lip vibrato because it will ruin reed placement and cause the player to take on too much reed over time and therefore go sharp.

Vibrato from her standpoint is for both sound and for tuning, it should come from the diaphragm and is a "belly laugh" motion. Your abdomen should be not be tense when you do this and your embrochure should be loose enough you can move the reed from one corner of your mouth to the other and be able to get a continuous tone (mind your teeth if you try this!).

As you bounce the note with the vibrato you can see where the pitch for that note really is and that`s the pitch you should always come back to - just make sure that it`s actually in tune. you shouldn`t be bounching more than 10c +/- off of the pitch.

I`m curious, ninianne98... since there are various national preferences concerning some aspects of oboe playing (reed making, embouchure, vibrato, just to name a few), what country are you from? I`m an american.
Thanks,
-Woody